METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED OPTIMISATION OF OCCUPANCY OF MAGAZINE SPACES BY TOOLS WITHIN AT LEAST ONE TOOL MAGAZINE FOR A MACHINE TOOL

摘要

The invention relates to a method and device for computer-assisted optimisation of the occupancy of magazine spaces (P) by tools within at least one tool magazine (R) for a machine tool, one or more workpieces of a workpiece type being manufactured with the aid of the tools provided by a magazine unit at a provisioning place. An essential step of the claimed steps of the method according to the invention described in the description is the optimisation of the occupancy of the magazine spaces by tools so that the total waiting time is minimised, wherein the total waiting time is composed of individual waiting times which result in each case from the difference between the detected provisioning period and the detected working step duration if the value of the difference is positive, otherwise the individual waiting time assumes the value zero.